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10.16 Birmingham Dental Hospital Aylesbury Estate 10.16 Cover Oculus, World Trade Center, New York City Santiago Calatrava’s winged subway connection opens to the sky page 14 BIRMINGHAM DENTAL HOSPITAL A sparkling new stand-alone dental facility AYLESBURY ESTATE, LONDON HTA’s masterplan harnesses streetscape to regenerate an inner London district CONTEMPORARY STYLE TAKEN TO NEW HEIGHTS APPALACHIAN® APPALACHIAN PROVIDES EXCEPTIONAL DURABILITY WITH AN AFFORDABLE PRICE. For more information or to order a sample please call 01335 372222. Image: Applacian paving in Leemoor at Trafalgar Place, Elephant and Castle, London. www.charcon.com CONTENTS 10.16 NEWS, VIEWS & INSIGHTS PRODUCTS 5 Industry news & events 47 Planning & design 10 View Point Rory Bergin on the 47 Structural elements Carbuncle Cup 48 Groundworks 16 Practice Profile BuckleyGrayYeoman 49 External envelope 12 19 Site Lines Fabrizio Rossi Prodi: Spaces 61 Insulation for People 62 Heating, ventilation & services 22 International Focus 65 Interiors 24 CPD Focus 72 Safety & security 26 Appointments & news 76 Landscaping & external works 46 London Build show preview 82 Classified & directory PROJECT REPORTS 28 A bastion of health Britain’s first new stand-alone dental hospital and school in 40 years has been built on the site of one of the BBC’s main former studios. Ray Philpott reports 38 Regeneration streets Regeneration is an overused term but it’s apt for a significant inner London project which hopes to replace a troubled estate of 1960s monoliths FEATURES 51 EXTERNAL ENVELOPE: ROOFING Understanding underlays is the key to performance Innovation in roofing underlays has been seen in recent years in order to tackle issues in cold-pitched roofs. ADF reports 67 INTERIORS: SMART HOMES/SMART TECHNOLOGY The smart approach to MVHR John Kelly at Airflow Developments explains the next step to efficiency is to 16 integrate smart, internet-capable systems 74 SAFETY & SECURITY The power of vaults Jeremy Cassady of Securikey looks at how modular vault systems can provide an effective, easy-to-install bespoke system for high security applications 79 LANDSCAPING & EXTERNAL WORKS: STREET FURNITURE & URBAN DESIGN Charting the evolution of urban landscape Jonathan Goss of street furniture manufacturer Townscape Products explores how the streetscape is being adapted as people become less alert to their surroundings incorporating Building Projects magazine, architectsdatafile.co.uk and @architectsDF 28 adfa 4 NEWS Managing Editor James Parker [email protected] Advertisement Manager/ Joint Publisher FROM Anthony Parker [email protected] Production Assistants Mikey Pooley Shelley Collyer THE EDITOR Rob Duncan Kim Musson Designer Gabrielle Vinyard hope as you open ADF this month you’ll notice we have changed a few things. While the overall Editorial Assistants mix of content is the same, you’d be forgiven for thinking that we had overhauled the whole Roseanne Field magazine. We have a really smart looking new design, and I hope you agree it works. A big Jack Wooler I Teodora Lyubomirova thanks to the team for pulling out the stops to make sure that it looks great, without damaging the Editorial Coordinator all-important schedules! Sue Benson Contributors As well as a generally bolder look, and more eye-catching typology, we have also greatly improved Norman Hayden Ray Philpott the ‘signposting’ – as magazine designers term it. This means that key sections in the magazine are Sales Director more clearly delineated, bringing our in-house regulars such as ‘Views’ and ‘Insights’ to the fore. You Lesley Mayo may not be aware that we regularly publish, for example, a Practice Profile (this month’s taking a Sales Executives Suzanne Easter close look at BuckleyGrayYeoman), Site Lines featuring architectural opinion on design matters, or a Ian Fletcher regular View Point column. Either way, the design is now helping to guide you to those sections. Kim Friend Steve Smith Circulation/Reader Pondering the relative merits of fonts and page designs led me to thinking, as many others have, Enquiry Service Jane Spice about the extent to which function and beauty are related. I subscribe to the view that we might instinctively think that certain objects, designs or buildings are beautiful because they work well. It Managing Director Simon Reed may not be necessary to ascend the lofty conceptual heights of Aesthetic Functionalism (which holds that aesthetic merit is only to be found in the functional) to explain this. It might just be a case that netMAG media p ublishing – vertical search things which work well, from a well-proportioned Georgian House to a 100 metre sprinter tend to netMAGmedia Ltd look good to us because we intuitively ‘feel’ they work well. Cointronic House Station Road, Heathfield East Sussex, TN21 8DF Take the Jaguar D-Type – designed in the early 1960s purely from an engineering standpoint to Advertising & Administration maximise its aerodynamics in every aspect of its form. The result was an almost indecently t 01435 863500 f 01435 863897 curvaceous yet sleek car which only a philistine would criticise on its aesthetics. This seems to prove [email protected] the theory, although perhaps buildings are a more complex matter of cultural expectations – for www.architectsdatafile.co.uk example Zaha Hadid’s extraordinary visions may often be highly functional, but also divide opinion Press Releases [email protected] on their form and function. Even the pop star Moby weighed in recently, slating a ZHA hotel room design for allegedly putting being ‘photogenic’ above comfort. The function and form debate becomes somewhat obscured as we approach the Stirling Prize award, Annual subscription costs just £48 for 12 issues, including post and with its judges taking in a wide swathe of criteria in reaching their decision. It comes not long after packing. Phone 01435 863500 for details. Individual copies of the the snap-judgement cavalcade of the Carbuncle Cup (which incidentally Rory Bergin castigates on publication are available at £5 each inc p & p. All rights reserved page 10). It is something of a shame that the general debate looks narrowly at a building’s external No part of this publication may be factors rather than examining it more deeply before we pronounce on a building’s worth. reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, including photocopying, recording or stored in any information A true scrutiny of beauty alongside function, rather than more shallow, and inevitably personal, ideas retrieval system without the express prior written consent of the publisher. of whether something is ‘appealing’ to a viewer might be more useful. Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy and reliability of material published in Architects Hopefully in ADF’s case you’ll Datafile, the publisher can accept no responsibility for the claims or agree that good-looking design is 10.16 opinions made by contributors, On the cover... © Hufton and Crow manufacturers or advertisers. intrinsically linked with usability! Oculus is a winged commemoration of the Editorial contributors to this journal may have made a payment towards September 11th attacks on the World Trade the reproduction costs of material Center, but also functions as a Transportation Hub used to illustrate their products. The James Parker manufacturer of the paper used and now also a Westfield shopping mall. Designed Cover within our publication is a Chain-of- Editor Oculus, World Trade Center, New York City Custody certified supplier operating Santiago Calatrava’s winged subway by Santiago Calatrava, it opened this Autumn. connection opens to the sky within environmental systems page 14 BIRMINGHAM DENTAL HOSPITAL certified to both ISO 14001 and A sparkling new stand-alone dental facility For more information, go to page 14. AYLESBURY ESTATE, LONDON HTA’s masterplan harnesses streetscape to EMAS in order to ensure sustainable regenerate an inner London district www.huftonandcrow.com production. Printed in England WWW.ARCHITECTSDATAFILE.CO.UK ADF OCTOBER 2016 NEWS 5 AWARDS Search for 2017 sustainability trailblazers The call for entries has been announced for the 2017 Ashden Awards, offering the chance for global trailblazers in the sustainable build- ings sector to receive recognition for their efforts, with a particular focus BUILDING GEOMETRY on architects. The Ashden Awards aim to “uncover the most exciting sustainable Foster and Aish reveal energy pioneers in the UK and in developing countries and emerging economies, who are breaking new geometry of Mexico airport ground when it comes to the construction of sustainable, low energy buildings which protect the In a joint keynote to the Advances in geometry and curvature. environment.” Architectural Geometry Conference in The architects gave the lecture at This year the charity said it is “par- Zurich, Lord Norman Foster and Foster + technology university ETH in Zurich ticularly interested in hearing from Partners head of applied R&D Francis Aish to an audience of over 450 in the Robotic architects, building engineers, develop- presented an overview of the design of the Fabrication Laboratory, part of the ers and businesses supplying products 470,000 m2 Mexico City International Arch_Tec_Lab at ETH’s new Institute of or services to reduce energy use Airport, currently under construction. Technology in Architecture. in buildings.” They explained how the entire terminal The speakers also addressed the As well as a financial award, the will be enclosed within a continuous light- advantages and limits of computational awards also provide winners with a weight gridshell, blending the vertical sup- tools for architecture in the question and wide-ranging package of “bespoke ports with the roof in a single flowing form, answer session, specifically the role of support” including business support, which is “evocative of flight.” computational tools for complex geome- introductions to policymakers, poten- The project combines two strands of tries in architecture. tial funders and investors, and sharing Foster + Partner’s past projects, referencing According to Lord Foster, while the com- of expertise.
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